FinovateSpring 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 3

FinovateSpring 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 3

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This week’s sneak peek of FinovateSpring 2014 features everything from account opening to loan underwriting, and is just a small selection of items we’ll see in San Jose on April 29 and 30. Get your ticket here to satisfy your fintech hunger.

If you missed the two installments from last week, you can catch them here:


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CREALOGIX, the Swiss market leader for digital banking and e-learning platforms, presents its comprehensive digital banking suite with a seamlessly integrated e-learning management system.
Features:
    • Provides contextual compliance where needed
    • Supports client advisors and enhances quality of advice 
    • Enables effortless learning combined with rewards (gamification)
Why it’s great:
The CREALOGIX digital banking suite with integrated e-learning management system offers clear added value for both sides: banks and their clients.  
Presenters:
Geraldine Critchley, Head Product Marketing

Critchley is responsible for mastering the digital mindset of the next generation online banking and dealing with all inbound/outbound marketing activities concerning digital banking.
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Ivan Inderbitzin, Senior E-Learning Author
Inderbitzin writes innovative online staff trainings for financial, medical and other industries. He taught at universities in Australia and likes asking questions.
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D3 Banking is a single solution that delivers a LodoSoftwareD3Logo.jpg

comprehensive set of digital banking services to any digital device replacing disparate online and mobile point solutions.
Features:
    • Omnichannel – one solution for any digital channel
    • Innovative money movement – contextual user experience, least cost routing
    • Powerful customer data analytics for personalized marketing
Why it’s great:
D3 Banking is an omnichannel, data driven, digital solution that lowers cost, decreases complexity and personalizes the customer experience.  

Presenters:
Mark Vipond, CEO
Vipond has been in the FinTech industry for almost 30 years beginning his career as a systems engineer at IBM and most recently serving as president and COO of ACI Worldwide.
Kevin O’Kane, CPO
O’Kane has 25 years experience in the industry including serving as Director, Professional Services at Harland Financial Solutions.

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Endeavour and Zoot’s mobile account opening solution meets consumers’ evolving expectations and banks’ complex fraud and risk management requirements.

Features:

    • Beautiful mobile interface, intuitive customer experience
    • Secure, compliant, & robust ID verification & risk management
    • Business user web portal to manage any feature with no app-store redeployment
Why it’s great: 
Endeavour has partnered with Zoot to deliver the most sophisticated mobile account opening solution in the industry.  
Presenters:
Steven Staley
Staley is a Consulting Executive, Entrepreneur, and Business Owner with 10+ years in the banking Industry. He oversees Endeavour’s Banking Practice and Global Strategic Alliances while smiling daily.
Tom Johnson, VP of Strategic Alliances at Zoot 
With over 30 years of experience in technology, Johnson is Zoot’s “Chief Idea Guy”; responsible for developing new partnerships and solutions concepts.
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Jumio is a next-generation payments and ID software-as-a-service company that utilizes proprietary computer vision technology to reduce mobile payment friction and ID fraud.

Features:
    • Turns customer’s mobile device into an ID scanner
    • Personal data is populated into forms in seconds
    • Increases your sign-up and shopping cart completion rates  
Presenters:
Michael Orlando, Chief Sales Officer
Orlando heads up Jumio’s worldwide sales and business development efforts and brings over 20 years of high-growth company experience to this role.
Anthony Lanham, Senior Vice President, Sales
Lanham started his career with Dun and Bradstreet. He spent 10 years at D&B companies in several sales and sales management roles. In 2001 while at D&B RMS he pioneered the idea of outsourced credit.

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Visible Equity provides innovative and easy-to-use software that helps financial institutions analyze the risks and opportunities in their lending data.

Features:
    • Uses advanced modeling to estimate race/gender
    • Calculates expected pricing, denial rates, etc. using multiple variables 
    • Provides easy to interpret indicators of likeliness of disparate impact 
Why it’s great:
It’s unlikely a financial institution ever knowingly discriminates, but now proving you are treating all borrowers fairly can be as simple as clicking a button.  

Presenters:
Matthew Court, VP of Sales & Marketing 
Court oversees all sales, marketing, and corporate communications.
David Gilbert, COO 
Gilbert is at the forefront of marketing, business development, and new product research.
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Stay tuned later this week when we’ll feature six more companies.

Finovate Alumni News– April 1, 2014

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgNBC Chicago hosts Bolstr to discuss crowdfunding and SMB growth.
  • Actiance’s Socialite gets new features for better UX on native websites & more integrations w/ CRM platforms.
  • FIS’ licensing agreement to make the Visa EMV debit solution available to all NYCE debit network participants.
  • Truphone is offering unlimited voice and SMS recording through June.
  • Misys launches new Regulatory Reporting Service to help managers and banks meet EMIR regulations.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

ID Analytics Launches ID Score 9.0, Partners with ThreatMetrix and Others

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Today, San Diego-based ID Analytics launched the newest version of its flagship fraud detection platform, ID Score.

This newest release improves the effectiveness of the company’s existing identity fraud detection by:

    • Providing more insight into consumer behavior
    • Uncovering the risk level of the user’s device
    • Finding associations between device usage and fraudulent occurrences

As a part of this effort, it has partnered with device authentication and intelligence providers, including ThreatMetrix, to incorporate their risk assessments into the consumer’s ID score itself.

The end result, ID Score 9.0, is a fraud assessment that is composed of both identity and fraud risk.

ID Analytics demonstrated My ID Alerts at FinovateSpring 2011 and ThreatMetrix debuted its Fraud Prevention 2.0 at FinovateStartup 2009.

Finovate Alumni News– March 27, 2014

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgTSYS partners with Virgin Money to provide consumer credit processing services for UK customers.
  • Cachet Financial Solutions appoints Darin McAreavey as EVP and CFO.
  • Prosper to cross the $1 billion mark in personal loans originated through its platform next week, hosts giveaway.
  • Tech Zulu interviews Trustev after the company’s win at SXSW Accelerator.
  • Jumio to help form Identity Security Network with eight leading Bitcoin exchanges.
  • InComm’s corporate B2B store enables retailers to streamline management of corporate gift card sales.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

FinovateSpring 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 1

FinovateSpring 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 1

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The northern hemisphere’s first day of spring last week can mean only one thing: FinovateSpring 2014 is just around the corner. To help you prepare for the upcoming onslaught of innovation, we’ll be dishing up bite-sized pieces of some of the companies you’ll see in San Jose on April 29 and 30.

In this first installment, we showcase ChiaraMail, Dealstruck, Digital Insight, ID.me, LendingRobot, and Verde International:


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ChiaraMail offers the first technology to protect your customers from becoming victims of e-mail address spoofing, while providing them unprecedented e-mail privacy without the use of encryption.

Features:
    • Eliminates spoofing and the resulting identity theft.
    • Ensures in-transit privacy.
    • Adds critical functionality such as changing e-mails after sending, and improved mail network efficiency.
Why it’s great:
ChiaraMail technology assures your customers that a message that claims to be from you is actually from you.  
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Robert Uomini, CEO/President
Uomini is founder of ChiaraMail and inventor/developer of the patented technology behind ChiaraMail. He has been developing disruptive technologies for many years.
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David Head, Chief Marketing Officer
Head is a senior marketing and sales executive with more than 20 years of experience in enterprise and start-up companies bringing game-changing technologies to market.


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Dealstruck is a web-based peer-to-peer lending company that offers a suite of financing products to small business borrowers designed to progressively graduate them toward conventional financing.

Features:

    • Real-time access to borrowers and deals
    • Ability to manipulate data from Dealstruck loan packaging to augment underwriting/yield
    • Opportunity to participate alongside others or take down full loans
Why its great:
Dealstruck provides the most complete suite of financing options for business borrowers and investment opportunities for lenders.  

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Ethan Senturia, co-founder and CEO
Senturia is Wharton Business School graduate who previously ran Internet marketing for a lead generation startup, Ampush Media, and in distressed credit at Lehman Brothers.

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Russell McLoughlin
McLoughlin, co-founder and CTO, is a B.S./M.S. who has worked at the Biodefense Knowledge Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and at Google Machine Translation and Apple.

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Digital Insight’s Promotion Suite for mobile reaches the right customers on their mobile device with the right offers at the moment of truth.

Features:

    • Brings personalized, relevant cross-sell offers from financial institutions to their customers.
    • Engages consumers in their moment of need anywhere, anytime and on any device.
Why it’s great:
Provides personalized engagements and enhanced communications to connect financial institutions with their customers like never before. 

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Karishma Anand
Anand is the director of product management for Digital Insight. She is responsible for driving product strategy, execution for digital banking and payments solutions.
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Marshall Yuan 
Yuan is a senior product manager at Digital Insight. In this role, he oversees the strategy and go-to-market plan for Android banking applications.
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ID.me verifies attributes of a consumer’s identity and ties them to a payment medium

Features:

    • CRM, Offers, Loyalty and Authentication via a payment medium
    • Elimination of physical credentials needed at checkout
    • Fraud prevention for high-value transactions via authentication
Why it’s great:
User-centric digital identity, attribute verification and a mobile device enables the holy grail of marketing: personalization  

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Blake Hall 
Hall is a former Army Ranger and Harvard Business School graduate. Thanks to The Economist, he is the first Google result for “muscly entrepreneur.”

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Matthew Thompson
Thompson is a former Army Ranger and a decorated combat veteran. He co-founded ID.me while attending Harvard Business School.
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LendingRobot automates loan selection and investment in Peer Lending.

Features:
    • Fully automates investment in LendingClub and Prosper
    • Submits orders within one second after new loans appear
    • Automated definition of investment strategies
Why it’s great:
LendingRobot makes investing in Peer Lending simple and efficient, and allows individuals to compete with institutional investors.  

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Gilad Golan, CEO 
Golan shipped almost every product he ever built (and he built a lot of them).
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Emmanuel Marot, President
Marot uniquely mixes backgrounds in both user experience design and quantitative finance.


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Verde International’s Verde Aurora is a next-gen automated loan-underwriting optimization engine satisfying customers, shareholders, regulators, dealers, and other stakeholders, instantly.

Features:
    • The best possible decisions and counteroffers, delivered in seconds
    • Loss models that outperform industry leading models by fourfold
    • Scalable deployment that any financial institution can afford
Why it’s great:
Verde Aurora obsoletes today’s decision systems by integrating behavioral models, DCF analysis and MPP-driven optimization for perfect instant offers, pleasing customers and shareholders alike. 
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Patrick Reily, CEO and Co-Founder Verde International
Reily’s multidisciplinary approach to strategic planning and business development is the result of 25 years of experience in banking and financial services. 
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Robert Hughes, CEO of Finance and Thrift Co.
Bob has over 30 years of experience as the President/CEO of federally insured financial institutions.

Stay tuned for a sneak peek of another six companies later this week.

SmartAsset Brings in $5.2 Million in Series A Financing Round

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The team at SmartAsset, a company that aims to answer consumers’ complex financial questions, has been busy lately. Not only are they preparing their 7-minute demo for FinovateSpring next month, they also recently launched a retirement planning tool, and this week announced they just closed on $5.2 million.

The Series A financing round was led by Javelin Venture Partners. Denis Grosz, SV Angel and Brendan Wallace, founder of Identified, also contributed.

SmartAsset plans to use the round to grow its New York-based team by around a dozen new employees and expand its platform’s capability to give users more control of their financial future.

To see SmartAsset’s newest tech and meet the innovators behind the platform, don’t miss its live demo at FinovateSpring.

FinanceIt’s New Printed Materials Service Keeps Shoppers Informed of Financing Options at the Point of Sale

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In an era when the Internet of Things is becoming wildly popular, POS financing provider Financeit has opened up a communications channel in the analog world of print.

The Canadian-based company announced today that its users now have the option to order printed materials, such as:

    • Brochures detailing Financeit and its benefit to customers
    • Price tags that help highlight monthly prices
    • Posters and window displays
    • Stickers for front window and cash register 

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These printed materials not only let shoppers know that instant financing is available in the store, but also help to educate them about the merchant’s payment plan options through Financeit.

Users can order these items in the Library section of their account.

Financeit has raised a total of $21 million and demoed at FinovateFall 2013 and FinovateFall 2012.

BancBox’s New API Ensures Accreditation of Investors So Crowdfunding Platforms Don’t Have To

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Players in the crowdfunding space have a lot of headaches in order to maintain compliance, especially since the SEC requires that parties who invest in offerings on crowdfunding platforms must be fully accredited. That is, they must meet one of the following two requirements:

1) Have earned $200,000/ year in both of the past two years (or $300,000 with spouse) and expect to earn the same next year

2) Have a net worth of $1 million (excluding primary residence)

BancBox, a company known for its money-moving APIs, is seeking to remove this barrier for players in the crowdfunding industry with its new API that will verify the accreditation of investors.

BancBoxInvestHomepage.jpgThe API is a part of the BancBox Invest service. It will enable crowdfunding platforms to determine if their investors are accredited and legally allowed to invest in the platform. In order to comply with the SEC’s 506(c) standard, the new API will:

1) Verify income. This includes a review of the investor’s IRS documents (W-2s, 1099s, K-1s, 1040s) for the past two years and an additional confirmation that they expect to qualify in the current year.

2) Have a third party verify income (releasing in April): Third party verification must be received from a CPA, attorney, broker dealer, SEC-registered investment advisor or an equivalent entity.

3) Verify assets (releasing in May): An investor must have a net worth of at least one million dollars, excluding the value of their primary residence.

Combined with other features that the Invest service offers, the API will give private placement and equity/debt-based crowdfunding platform owners a full suite of solutions.
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SeedInvest, which demoed at FinovateSpring 2013, is among the companies using BancBox’s new API.

Check out BancBox’s demo from FinovateSpring 2012 where it debuted its payments platform.

Finovate Alumni News– March 20, 2014

  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgMore than 25 banks have signed up for Matchi since its launch in November last year. 
  • American Banker looks at how Credit Karma and Credit Sesame provide more than just a credit score.
  • Thomson Reuters launches Know-Your-Customer service.
  • SecondMarket seeks to open Bitcoin fund to ordinary investors.
  • Pymnts features Feedzai’s CEO Nuno Sebastiao.
  • Striata unveils new logo, new website.
  • Fenergo appoints Oliver White to UK Head of Sales.
  • mBank and Orange partner to launch full-service, retail mobile bank in second half of 2014.
  • Narrative Science launches free app to turn data into readable documents.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Lending, Investing, & More Futurecasts for FinovateSpring 2014

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At FinovateSpring in San Jose this year, we’re excited to showcase brand new innovation from a variety of players in the fintech industry.

This year, we’ll see the newest innovations from large, established players and we’ll also watch never-before-seen startups debut to the world.

This word cloud comprises some of the major themes you can expect to see on stage at City National Civic on April 29 and 30 (click to enlarge):

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Pique your interest? Get your ticket here to be part of the audience and see the lastest in fintech first.


Finovate Alumni News– March 18, 2014

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  • Fiserv to adopt Visa’s debit EMV solution to offer issuers, acquirers and merchants an approach for debit EMV adoption.
  • Tyfone appoints former UBS managing director Nizar Jamal as Chief Technology Officer.
  • PaymentsSource: Virtual Piggy’s Oink partners with European Games Group.
  • App Shopper features BudgetTracker’s iOS mobile app.
  • Realty Mogul crowdfunders top $100 million worth of real estate investment.
  • VentureBeat takes a look at mobile payment success stories including PaySimple, Braintree, and PayPal.
  • TD Bank enhances online money movement services with addition of Popmoney and TransferNow from Fiserv.
  • DoubleBeam powers new mobile app for Foodland Super Market.
  • Nostrum Group reports revenue gains of more than 80% to £7 million. for FY 2013.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

SmartAsset Launches Retirement Planning Tool, Announces 40% Month-Over-Month Growth

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SmartAsset, which originally launched as a tool for home buying, is making its platform more robust this week with the launch of its retirement planning tool.

The New York-based company, which has a user base that’s growing by 40% month-over-month, aims to bring transparency to retirement by giving users personalized answers to their questions about implications of taxes and social security.

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What’s most notable about the launch is the partnership with eTrade, which provides resources and tools for SmartAsset users.

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SmartAsset will be launching its latest development at FinovateSpring next month in San Jose. To see the live demo on stage, get your ticket here to join our audience.